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(No Model.)

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. HOOPS, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

CURTAIN-LIGHT FRAME FOR CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,036, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed May 2, 1885. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. Hoors, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Light Frames for Carriages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to metal windowframes for carriage-curtains, its object being to provide an efficient and economical frame which shall be easily applied, containing Within itself the means of fastening to the curtain, and which, when applied, may present asmooth and finished exterior surface without any projecting lugs or cleats, which form an impediment to the proper cleaning of the same.

To this end it consists in the construction and in the application to the curtain and to each other of two parts hereinafter more fully set forth.

My invention is illustrated in the accompan-ying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 represent blanks formed of sheet metal, out of which the two parts of the casing are formed. Figs. 3 and 4. represent the blanks completed, constituting the two parts of the frame. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of each of said blanks upon the lines :10 x of Figs. 3 and 4, and placed relatively to each other in the positions occupied when applied to the curtain. vFig. 6 is a cross-section through the curtain and window-frame as applied, and Fig. 7 an. exterior view of the curtain and window-frame applied thereto.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the blank for one portion of the frame, and B of the other, both composed of sheet metal exteriorly smoothed, burnished, plated, or otherwise prepared, as may be desired. The blank A when completed, as inFig. 3, has its inner flaps, a, turned over upon dotted lines indicated in Fig. l, and the blank B has its outer flaps, I), turned over upon the dotted lines indicated in Fig. 2, thus forming two corresponding sections, which engage by means of the flaps a and b. The mode of engagement is to place the two sets of flaps end to end and slide one portion of the frame longitudinally upon the other. The flaps a engage within the flaps b. The outer edges of one portion-for example, the portion A- of theframeare provided with exteriortongues,

a, and the portion B is provided with similar tongues at the ends only. In applying the same to the curtain the part A is first ap plied with the edge of the curtain-aperture within the flaps a, the tongues a being then turned over through the material of the curtain, thus falling within the general exterior of the metal frame and concealed from the outside. The part B is then applied in the manner indicated, and when in position its tongues c are then turned into the curtain in the same manner. The glass, if such be used, is also inserted and held between the metal frames so applied. \Vhen in position, as indicated by Figs. 6 and 7, the folds of the flaps are pressed securely together, and, as will be seen, the fastening is secure in all directions, presenting the appearance indicated in Fig. 7, in which no external means of fastening appear. The entire surface of the frame thus remains perfectly smooth and free from any exterior projections, presenting a much neater appearance, and offering no impediment to cleaning. The external tongues, c and 0', may, however, be omitted,

tion by other Ineans-sueh, for example, as light rivets passed through the corresponding apertures at the four corners of the frame; but the arrangement first described is preferred.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A sheet-metal frame for carriage-curtain lights, consisting of two rectangular members, A and B, provided with flaps or, turned from opposite interior. edges of one member inward, and b, turned from opposite interior edges of the other member outward, to engage the two members together with the curtain between, substantially as set forth.

2. Thesheet-metal framefor carriageeurtain lights, consisting of the part A, provided with interior flaps, a, and exterior tongues, c, and the part B, provided with exterior flaps, b, and tongues c, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN II. HOOPS.

Witnesses:

G. M. CASSATT, L. M. I-Iosnn.

and the two parts of the frame held in posi- 

